Mark 14:17–31

¹⁷When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. ¹⁸While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, “What I’m about to tell you is true. One of you who is eating with me will hand me over to my enemies.”

¹⁹The disciples became sad. One by one they said to him, “It’s not I, is it?”

²⁰“It is one of the Twelve,” Jesus replied. “It is the one who dips bread into the bowl with me. ²¹The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But how terrible it will be for the one who hands over the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

²²While they were eating, Jesus took bread. He gave thanks and broke it. He handed it to his disciples and said, “Take it. This is my body.”

²³Then he took the cup. He gave thanks and handed it to them. All of them drank from it.

²⁴“This is my blood of the new covenant,” he said to them. “It is poured out for many. ²⁵What I’m about to tell you is true. I won’t drink wine with you again until the day I drink it in God’s kingdom.”

²⁶Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus Says That Peter Will Fail

²⁷“You will all turn away,” Jesus told the disciples. “It is written,

“ ‘I will strike the shepherd down.

Then the sheep will be scattered.’

²⁸But after I rise from the dead, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

²⁹Peter said, “All the others may turn away. But I will not.”

³⁰“What I’m about to tell you is true,” Jesus answered. “It will happen today, this very night. Before the rooster crows twice, you yourself will say three times that you don’t know me.”

³¹But Peter would not give in. He said, “I may have to die with you. But I will never say I don’t know you.” And all the others said the same thing.